Inauguration of two new schools and a bathroom for students in the northern mountainous region

(Fatherland) - On January 17, 2025, continuing the project of building new schools for students in remote areas, UNIQLO Vietnam and the Hope Foundation recently inaugurated two more schools and a new bathroom in Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai and Song Ma district, Son La. The three projects sponsored by UNIQLO Vietnam have a total value of nearly 2.5 billion VND.

One of the two newly built schools this time is Ta Cho school, belonging to Kim Noi Kindergarten, Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province. The newly built complex includes 2 kindergarten classrooms with private toilets according to the standards of the Ministry of Education and Training, a semi-boarding kitchen serving 50 students, 100% of whom are Mong ethnic group. This is also the second school that UNIQLO has contributed to building in Mu Cang Chai district. Previously, in January 2024, the project also completed the construction of Trong Tro school, located in Ho Bon commune, Mu Cang Chai district.

The remaining school is Huoi Khoang, belonging to Nam Man Primary and Secondary School, Song Ma District, Son La Province. After the inauguration ceremony, the school will officially have 3 new classrooms, 1 office room and 1 new toilet in use. The project provides a modern, friendly teaching and learning environment, ensuring safety and comfort for teachers and nearly 100 Mong and Thai students in the village.

The third project inaugurated on this occasion is the Hope Bathhouse, built at Lao Chai Primary School for Ethnic Minorities, Mu Cang Chai District, Yen Bai, to meet the living needs of nearly 500 boarding students. Previously, the students had to bathe around an outdoor water tank even on cold winter days. After the handover ceremony, the students now have a new, solid bathroom with separate bathrooms, separated for boys and girls, ensuring a source of warm water. The bathroom project also focuses on activities to educate about gender awareness, self-protection, and learning about hygiene and clean water.

In addition, during this trip, UNIQLO Vietnam donated 10,000 new HEATTECH thermal shirts (equivalent to nearly 3 billion VND) to students, teachers, parents and people in difficult circumstances in Yen Bai and Son La provinces. Also on the inauguration day, UNIQLO Vietnam donated more than 6,000 products under the RE.UNIQLO program, including children's clothing, men's and women's jackets, winter accessories (socks, gloves, scarves, blankets) to people here.

Mr. Nishida Hideki, General Director of UNIQLO Vietnam shared: "We believe that education is the best way to build a bright future for children. At the event to celebrate UNIQLO's 5th anniversary in Vietnam, we committed to using revenue from 2 special T-shirt collections (calculated in December 2024) to contribute to the construction of 2 new schools in mountainous areas. And today, we are very excited and happy to be able to realize this commitment right before the new year. Entering 2025, we hope that children will have the opportunity to study with more convenient and secure facilities, thereby adding more joy to them when going to school."

Not only bringing new schools and bathrooms, on this occasion, UNIQLO Vietnam also organized many interesting bonding activities imbued with national identity such as decorating classrooms with students to celebrate Tet, instructing on folding clothes, maintaining personal hygiene, planting trees...

Song Ma is a disadvantaged district of Son La province, in which Nam Man commune is a particularly disadvantaged commune of the district. This is where a large number of Thai, Lao, and Mong people live together, with unstable incomes, and lacking facilities and living conditions. Currently, the entire Song Ma district has nearly 50,000 students, many of whom are degraded, unsafe, and have insufficient space to accommodate the increasing number of students.

In addition, Mu Cang Chai is also a poor district with a large ethnic minority population, with a poverty and near-poor household rate of over 30%. The district currently has 530 classrooms, including many temporary classrooms, wooden classrooms, and prefabricated houses built many years ago, which are now seriously degraded. Representatives of the People's Committees of Son La and Yen Bai provinces agreed that the construction of two new schools will bring comprehensive and favorable teaching and learning conditions and ensure safety for teachers and students here.

Over the years, UNIQLO has accompanied the Hope Foundation in implementing many meaningful activities to support improving the quality of life and providing better educational opportunities for students in remote areas, such as building a new Trong Tro school in Yen Bai in 2024, supporting the reconstruction of 3 schools affected by Typhoon Yagi, and donating more than 45,000 RE.UNIQLO clothing products to disadvantaged areas.

Source: https://toquoc.vn/khanh-thanh-hai-diem-truong-moi-cho-hoc-sinh-vung-cao-phia-bac-20250118165118035.htm